Though the state of Alaska has not adopted the Common Core, the Anchorage School District has participated in the development of the standards since 2008 and has now fully implemented CCSS into its curricula. Alaska was also a member of the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium for several years, but dropped out of the consortium in January 2014.

Common Core Implementation Status

1. Teacher Professional Development

2. Curriculum Guides
or Instructional Materials

3. Teacher Evaluation
Systems

New Curriculum

State designs frameworks

State provides frameworks

State designs guides

State provides guides

Local districts only

New Assessments

PARCC member

SBAC member

ACT Aspire

Developing own CC-aligned assessments

New Expenditures

New expenditures required to implement the Common Core

Current annual education expenditures

Race to the Top Phase 2 award

(State is not a Race to the Top recipient.)

Education Database Status

P-20 development required by state law

State is capable of having a P-20 database

State has access to homeschool students’ data

Potential Impacts on Homeschooling

State currently requires homeschoolers to take state-prescribed tests and report their scores